Piyush Goyal meets Director General of World Trade Organization

India Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal met Director General of World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Geneva, Switzerland.

In Geneva, the two leaders talked about the permanent solution of Public Warehousing for Food Security. Along with this, Goyal also participated in the G33 Ministerial Meeting. It is an alliance of developing countries and India is an important member of it. The Union Minister discussed various issues with his counterparts from developing and least developed countries.

Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted that as part of the struggle for the rights of our farmers, he attended the G33 ministerial meeting within an hour of reaching the WTO in Geneva. He had a discussion with DG Ngoji Okonja Iwela and commerce ministers of developing and least developed countries on the issue of sustainable solutions to public storage for food security. Apart from this, he also met US Trade Minister Catherine.

India's Permanent Representative to the WTO Brajendra Navneet said that on July 15 last year all the ministers had gathered on this issue. Representative ministers of 82 countries out of 120 countries supported India. He said the Coalition of Developing Countries is well aware that they have not exploited the resources, so their interest is in protecting their small and traditional fishermen. They will not like any discipline in their waters. He said that developing countries are not involved in fishing in the distant seas.